Beaten At McDonald

A transgender woman in Maryland, Baltimore was brutally beaten at a McDonald’s, while the employees, videotape, shout and no one interferes and goes to help the victim. An old lady finally manages to get in between.

A transgender woman in Maryland, Baltimore was brutally beaten at a McDonald’s, while the employees, videotape, shout and no one interferes and goes to help the victim. An old lady finally manages to get in between. The victim then goes into seizures because of the severe impact. [Link] (Warning: The video is extremely graphic and disturbing).

Its a sad sad day. What makes people hate? What makes them brutally assault someone like this? What makes someone to capture a video without going for help? What kind of establishment encourages employees to not be involved in saving someone from being assaulted?

McDonaldis - We are NOT loving it!

As a transwoman, I am scared to death. This is the second incident I have known about in the last week. [Link] [Link] As a Queer, I am angry and frustrated. As an ally to minorities of race, gender, sexual and other identities, I am worried about how someone can let this happen. As a human I am disgusted.

As a start, you can show your support by signing the petition here [Link]. It doesn’t matter where you live. By signing you show your support that such brutality cannot be let gone with. Hate crimes have to be tackled. Corporates have to be answerable. Police and law enforcement agencies should not harass the already torn individual by using their wrong name or gender and by identifying the criminals and finding them responsible and accountable for their actions.

You can also contact McDonalds via Twitter : @McDonalds

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Rashmi grew up in India and now she enjoys her time living in one of the queerest places in the world. She started transitioning a while back and is gradually coming out to people she thinks are cool enough for her. She enjoys discussing any topic under the sun and has an opinion about anything and everything. She thinks of herself as someone who can only hold intelligent conversations with people, when in reality she is totally insane and crazy, not to mention she has been highly hormonal recently. *GRIN*

i was hurt when i first saw it. it didnt even matter to me that the individual was transgendered. the fact that somebody filmed the entire event instead of stopping the fighting is just disgusting >_> times like these i wonder about the future… i hope the victim recovers from this….

I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice however young they may be and the employees be held accountable. People should know that they cannot sit there and watch like this is some kind of a jerry springer show. McDonald’s and other corporates need to know they need to offer sensitivity training to all their franchisees and not just sit there and act as if it is unfortunate. Shame on them for hiring such lousy prejudicial employees. I am seething with anger.

This is a total transphobic act and I hope the media keeps their racial fodder out of this and keep the real meaning of this violence intact.

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